The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-04


anv other purpose.
Breeding stock should not be pan.
pered, but be kept in thrifty condi-
tion and not allowed to "run down"
They need muscle rather than much
fat, as the latter always means a loss
of energy if hot of health and vigor.
The proper condition for a manure
heap is in the shape of what is known
as compost. The finer it can be rem
dercd the greater the ease of spread
ing it over the surface Of the soil and
the sooner II is converted into plant
food.
The gilt edge butter of the future
will not be washed at all, says The
american Caltiuator. The fine aro-
matte odors, and the mutty flavor will
be retained, and not washed away in
streams of water. Water Injuries but
ter.
A stone fence only wants binding
crosswise, it does not fall down length
wise A crooked rail should never be
put in the fence near the bottom. A
crooked rail, like crooked man, makes
more trouble than it is worth-better
make wood of 1t.
Old bones, old boots, leather scraps
and rags are excellent for placing in
holes intended for grape vines 1t is a
safe mode of getting them out of the
way and also render them serviceablc.
They may be of very little value at first,
but sooner or later they will furnish
plant food.
Have your new house on natural,
dry ground, but if this be impossible,
drain it at least three feet below the
bottom of the cellar wall. Do not lay
the cellar wall plumb on either side.
Have it broadcast at the bottom, and just
as wide as the sill at the top. II it is
likely to freeze, put in brick wall in
side.
Plant on the roadside the whole
length of the farm such trees as natu-
rally grew on the same place. Put them
eight feet from the line, Have some
planted around the dwelling and in the
gull'es and waste places, where nothing
else can grow. and cover the country
with trees. They will help the climate
and water supply.
Crafts for spring setting to be cut
during any spell of mild weather. The
greatest care should be observed to la
BILE each kind correctly, trusting
nothing to appearances or memory.
Such should be packed in sawdust or
sand until used, the former preferable,
as then there will be no danger of grit
on them to dull the grating knife.
The colt should be taught TO eat as
soon as it will, pint or two of oats
with n quart of wheat bran daily, and
this ration should be gradually increas-
ed with its age, till it can take double
the amount night and morning.
Wheat bran is excellent for worms, and
colts that are fed with q moderate
quantity of it daily are scarcely ever
troubled with these pests.
In q short time the ewes will begm
to have lambs, and little care given
them now will be of great advantage.
They should have warm dry places to
remain at night, and oats should be
given twice day with plenty of hay.
When the lambs begin to come the
ewes should not be allowed to remain
in the open fields as exposure to cold
winds will destroy the weaker lambs.
In order that lost springs calves ana
colts should go on grass in the spring,
good feeding and shelter from now I'M
til that time is most important. Mere
ly hay and corn are not adapted to
either health, vigor or large growth.
Something as oats or bran or little
oil meal should enter the ration, that
the muscles, bones and nerves have ma
terial for growth. Foods that merely
fatten are not sufficient for the whole
ration.
Calves or colts coming out in the
spring rough, or poor, perhaps lousy
and diseased, have much less power
TO make profits out Of pasture grass
than have the sleek, robust yearlings
that have been we'll housed and fed
during the winter. Profits can hard
ly be expected from the winter feed
ing of itself The summer feeding on
grass is the period when this is real
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